The Supreme Court on Friday overturned the death sentence awarded to a murder convict by a trial court in 2007, converting the sentence into life imprisonment. A three-member bench, headed by Chief Justice Asif Saeed Khosa and comprising Justice Sardar Tariq Masood and Justice Qazi Mohammad Amin, pronounced the verdict. The convict, Karim Nawaz, was […]
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Minister for Information Firdous Ashiq Awan on Friday said that it was uncanny that Prime Minister Imran Khan had been issued a show-cause notice by the Election Commission of Pakistan over a visit to Ghotki. The premier had visited Ghotki on Wednesday to condole the death of federal minister for narcotics control Ali Mohammad Mahar. […]
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An accountability court in Islamabad on Friday granted the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) an 11-day extension in the physical remand of former president Asif Ali Zardari. Following the decision to extend Zardari’s remand till July 2, a NAB team left the court with the former president. A day after his arrest in the fake accounts […]
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The government on Friday announced the terms of references (ToR) of a Commission of Inquiry announced by Prime Minister Imran Khan that was formed to probe how foreign debts swelled to Rs24,000 billion in the last decade. According to a notification issued by the Cabinet Division, the commission will have to submit interim progress reports […]
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The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) late on Wednesday issued a show-cause notice to Prime Minister Imran Khan for visiting Ghotki ahead of the NA-205 by-election next month. The ECP has also issued show-cause notices to Minister for Inter-provincial Cooordination Dr Fahmida Mirza, Minister for Privatisation and Aviation Muhammad Mian Soomro and Sindh Govermor Imran […]
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GUJRAT: The lawmakers belonging to the four major allied parties of the ruling Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf have decided to meet Prime Minister Imran Khan to share their grievances with him once the budget gets approved by the National Assembly, sources told Dawn on Wednesday. The National Assembly members belonging to the Pakistan Muslim League-Quiad (PML-Q), Grand […]
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ISLAMABAD: A parliamentary body has approved the initial draft of the Zainab Alert, Response and Recovery Bill 2019, with recommendations for rigorous imprisonment until death for the sexual assault and murder of children. At a meeting of a subcommittee of the National Assembly Standing Committee on Human Rights, its chair Dr Mahreen Razaq Bhutto said: “The […]
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ISLAMABAD: A parliamentary panel on Wednesday examined resumes of nominees for the vacant positions of members of the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) from Sindh and Balochistan. The ECP members from Sindh and Balochistan — Abdul Ghaffar Soomro and retired Justice Shakeel Baloch — retired on Jan 12 and, under the law, the positions were […]
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LAHORE: Pakistan Muslim League (PML-N) vice president Maryam Nawaz has declared that she cannot be intimidated and now nobody can stop her from going to the masses against the ‘selected’ Imran Khan government. “I have seen imprisonment, exile and political victimisation…what else is there in waiting. These things cannot make me afraid anymore and stop […]
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LAHORE: Punjab Inspector General of Police Arif Nawaz Khan ordered suspension of four personnel of the Dolphin Squad on the allegation of unprovoked firing on a 20-year-old motorcyclist on M.M Alam Road, Gulberg on Wednesday. The motorcyclist suffered bullet injury in the leg and was said to be stable in hospital. Raza, a resident of […]
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